Quoted: The Associated Press joins the White House enemies list, James Taranto reports.

Quoted: Kim Strassel writes in The Wall Street Journal that the White House is now targeting the Chamber of Commerce for opposing climate and financial regulation.

"Give the money directly to the people for businesses so we can support ourselves without having to rely on the government."

what a concept.

Quoted: In the Wall Street Journal, Bjorn Lomberg profiles Torethy Frank of the island nation Vanuatu. He argues that despite the emphasis Vanuatuan leaders put on climate change, the local inhabitants have never heard of global warming. Instead, they're worried about power and running water.

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yes! They don't make em like they used to.

Quoted: A video compilation of old burlesque footage.

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I love the dialectic

Quoted: People marvel at the idiocy of these Nobel awards, but there’s method in the madness, since in the end they train people to accept without demur or protest absurdity as part and parcel of the human condition

Quoted: Over the coming few years, as the costs of global warming policies mount and the evidence of a crisis continues to collapse, perhaps it will become socially permissible for people to start thinking for themselves again. In the meantime I am grateful for those few independent thinkers, like Steve McIntyre, who continue to ask the right questions and insist on scientific standards of openness and transparency.

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how treemometer hijinx can effect the common man

Quoted: A comic-book tour of logic, math and madness, populated by Bertrand Russell and other superheroes of philosophy.